What 壼 means
A palace corridor or inner palace (kǔn, kon). It can also name women's quarters or women's conduct.
A Han era Shuowen Jiezi entry records the older form 𡈋 as a palace passage and quotes the older Classic of Poetry phrase 室家之壼. Its form was read as palace walls enclosing a path, so its original job was to name that route. Later texts extended it to the palace interior and women's rooms; commentators glossed the poem's use as “broad.”
Japanese references keep the palace and inner-room senses and add shikimi, “threshold.” The older form 𡈋 and variant 壸 are connected; 壺 is separate.
Historical and literary; unexplained in ordinary chat, it looks obscure.
For a pot or bottle, use 壺.
Who writes 壼
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1Why does 壼 show as a box on some devices?
Because that device's fonts have no glyph for it. The character is still correct and still copies correctly — the box is a missing glyph, not a broken character.
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How to type or find 壼
- Also called
- 壸 · 𡈋
- Search it as
- kun · kon · shikimi · palace · corridor · passage · threshold · kanji
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- Anything that takes text · its shape is whatever your font draws
壼\58FCCodes and encoding1 code points
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